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    Hitachi 7K320 320GB/7200rpm vs. Toshiba 320GB/5400rpm tests and benchmarks

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by porksoda, Mar 7, 2009.

  1. porksoda

    porksoda Notebook Enthusiast

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    Looking forward to it... here are my benchmarks.

    I had a toshiba hd in it... upgraded to the hitachi.. below is the methodology:

    - My current OS my day to day OS is Windows XP Professional XP SP3 up-to-date with windows update.
    - Benchmarks were calculated as follows:
    - XP Bootup timer was started as soon as bios screen disappeared and stopped as soon as msn showed up.
    - CS4 loading time was calculated by as soon as i clicked the icon and as soon as workspace was fully loaded.
    - Rar copy and Rar extraction are self explanatory.

    For the hitachi drive i did a HD clone so all the variables would be same except the hd and above methodology was observed.

    Each bootup included all tests then computer was shutdown and started again and 5 tests were run.

    Please allow for +/- 0.6secs for margin of error for all tests.

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    As its noticeable that synthetic and real world tests show performance increase which was expected.

    It is also confirmed overall performance is better... e.g when my email is received i was unable to scroll from email to email... now i can easily. This is no striping vs normal hd performance increase but on a portable machine this is better than stock.

    I used the best of the 5 for hdtune benchmarks see below:

    Toshiba:

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    Hitachi:

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    porksoda, Mar 7, 2009
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  2. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    Great way of benchmarking. Very well done. This says so much more than just HD Tune results.

    It was slightly off topic in the Seagate 7200.4 thread, so I gave it it's own thread.
     
    Phil, Mar 7, 2009
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    The main difference is the seek times, the 7200rpm Hitachi eats the Toshiba in seek times. The upgrade looks nice. I have three 7K320's and all of them have been very stable and reliable.

    Thanks for the post, real life benchmarks are always preferred here

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Mar 8, 2009
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  4. porksoda

    porksoda Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanX

    I did spend quite a lot of time for my own benifit and decided to record my finding scientifically to share here.

    I needed a pocket size hd and decided to up my main os to 7200rpm drive... was jumping from drive to drive.. got a really excellent deal on the hitachi so jumped on it.

    I consider this to money well spent. Best 70Cdn Dollars :)


    <edit>Can any of the mods change the title of the thread to reflect that its 7200rpm vs 5400rpm comparison... so it can read:

    Hitachi 7K320 320GB/7200rpm vs. Toshiba 320GB/5400rpm tests and benchmarks

    </edit>
     
    porksoda, Mar 8, 2009
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